Author: Bruce Godfrey

I am most gratified to have received a rating of “Excellent” from Avvo.com, a nationwide directory and rating service for attorneys. Avvo.com is a fairly new company whose rating service has undergone some scrutiny by some Bar Associations; accordingly one should not use any specific rating service as an absolute guide but conduct independent research

This link may be useful to some readers. “How to Survive the Police” is a guide to just that: getting out of an undesired encounter with law enforcement as quickly and safely as possible, while preserving your legal rights. I am honored that Avvo.com selected my article as a “Staff Pick” for their site.

Maryland’s Court of Appeals urges attorneys to provide “pro bono publico” (for the benefit of the public) assistance to persons of limited means, to assist in the fight to protect the rights of historically disadvantaged groups and to assist in the overall improvement of the legal system as a whole – at no charge or

Sometimes I do not recognize the world as the one I grew up in. This bizarre tale of a new attorney who went, more or less, berserk against a potential employer who didn’t want to hire him as a paralegal leads me to ask whether the “the world owes me a living” attitude of the

Chris Brown, Esquire, of the Columbia-based Business and Technology Law Group has an excellent summary of the law and procedure in Maryland unemployment appeals. While my perspective as a pro-labor, pro-worker and pro-union attorney differs substantially from that of a corporate attorney, and I would probably use a different lexicon to as a labor advocate

For Immediate Release, May 28, 2010 The Law Office of Bruce Godfrey is very pleased to announce a new professional alliance with Ruby Receptionists (www.callruby.com), a leader in top-flight client assistance and professional communications management for law firms and related professional organizations throughout the United States and Canada. With the previously announced relocation from Towson

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Unemployment workers’ rights attorney Bruce Godfrey has announced the relocation of his law practice from Towson, Maryland to Owings Mills, Maryland effective May 31, 2010. The Law Office of Bruce Godfrey has moved to expanded office space at the 11421 Professional Center at 11421 Reisterstown Road in Owings Mills, very convenient to

Sometimes clients and prospective clients ask me whether they should have quit their job rather than stay on until getting fired. Usually this query comes after a client has already quit her job, so the question is merely philosophical, in that the quit has been done. Generally, in Maryland, it is a lot riskier for

Maryland is contemplating a substantial increase in the premiums that employers pay for unemployment insurance, due to the sharp increase in claims during this difficult economy. A discussion of the basics of unemployment insurance payments might help those who are not familiar with the program. There are two unemployment insurance taxes that Maryland employers pay

In general, someone who quits her employment voluntarily is ineligible for Maryland unemployment benefits until she earns back into eligibility through subsequent employment. However, that rule does not tell the whole story. Maryland recognizes two categories of mitigation (“valid circumstances”) or justification (“good cause”) for a voluntary quit. “Valid circumstances” exist when: (i) a substantial